- •General Notes on Style and Stylistics
- •Stylistics and Other Linguistic Sciences
- •Meaning from a Stylistic Point of View
- •Stylistic Devices
- •Lexical Stylistic Devices
- •EMs and sDs based on the interaction of primary and contextual meanings
- •Em and sd based on the interplay of primary (dictionary) and derivative meanings (zeugma, pun, violation of phraseological units)
- •Sd based on the interaction between the logical and the nominal meanings of the word
- •Em and sd based on the interaction between the logical and emotive meanings
- •EMs and sDs which give additional characteristics to the objects described
- •Syntactical Stylistic Devices
- •SDs used within a sentence. SDs based on the juxtaposition (соположение) of different parts of the utterance
- •SDs based on the peculiarities of oral speech
- •SDs based on the stylistic use of interrogative and negative constructions (rhetorical questions, litotes)
- •SDs used within an utterance sDs based on parallelism
- •SDs Based on Repetition
- •Functional Style of the English Language
- •The Belles-Lettres Functional Style (the Style of Fiction)
- •The Scientific Prose Style
- •Popular Science prose
- •Newspaper Style
- •Paper 1
- •Paper 2
- •4. Answer the questions in writing
- •Translate the sentences and analyze the cases of metonymy
- •Paper 3
- •4. Give examples of irony and sarcasm.
- •5. Answer the questions in writing
- •Paper 4
- •5. Answer the questions in writing
- •6. Translate the sentences in writing. Indicate the types of cases of play on words, how it is created, what effect it adds to the utterance
- •Paper 5
- •Give your examples of antonomasia.
- •Analyze the following cases of antonomasia
- •Paper 6
- •Give your examples of different types of epithet
- •Define the type and function of epithet. Translate the sentences
- •Paper 7
- •Give your own examples of hyperbole, understatement and oxymoron.
- •7. In the following examples concentrate on cases of hyperbole and understatement. Translate the sentences.
- •Translate the following sentences, pay attention to oxymoron.
- •Paper 8
- •Learn the following phrases and use them in your own sentences:
- •4. Discuss the following cases of simile
- •Paper 9
- •3. Define the periphrases in the sentences and state their type:
- •Paper 10
- •7. Find examples of inversion and detachment in w. S. Maugham’s novel “Theatre”.
- •8. Analyze cases of inversion and detachment. Make the sentences sound neutral by restoring the word order
- •Paper 11
- •4. Find examples of represented speeh, rhetorical questions in w. S. Maugham’s novel “Theatre”.
- •5. Discuss different types of stylistic devices dealing with the completeness of the sentences
- •Analyze the structure and the functions of litotes
- •Paper 12
- •5. Find and analyze cases of suspense and climax. Indicate the type of climax
- •Paper 13
- •3. Discuss the semantic centre and structural peculiarities of antithesis
- •Paper 14
- •3. Find cases of different types of repetition, parallelism and chiasmus in w.S Maugham’s novel “Theatre”
- •4. Define repetition, parallelism and chiasmus
- •Paper 15
8. Analyze cases of inversion and detachment. Make the sentences sound neutral by restoring the word order
1. She narrowed her eyes a trifle at me and said I looked exactly like Celia Briganza’s boy. Around the mouth. (S.)
2. He observed it all with a keen quick glance, not unkindly, and full of rather of amusement than of censure. (V.W.)
3. She was crazy about you. At the beginning. (R.W.)
4. I have been accused of bad taste. This disturbed me not so much for my own sake (since I am used to the slights and arrows of outrageous fortune) as for the sake of criticism in general. (S.M.)
4. On, on he wandered, night and day, beneath the blazing sun, and the cold pale moon; through the dry heat of noon, and damp cold of night; in the grey light of morn, and the red glare of eve. (D.)
5. Benny Collan, a respected guy, Benny Collan wants to marry her. An agent could ask for more? (T.C.)
6. Women are not made for attack. Wait they must. (J.C.)
7. Out came the chase – in went the horses – sprang the boys – in got the travelers. (D.)
8. Then he said: “You think so? She was mixed up in this lousy business? (J.B.)
9. And she saw that Gopher Prairie was merely an enlargement of all the hamlets which they had been passing. Only to the eyes of a Kennicot was it exceptional.
Paper 11
1. What group do ellipsis, aposiopesis and represented speech belong to?
2. What SDs are based on the stylistic use of interrogative and negative constructions?
3. What is the difference between ellipsis and aposiopesis?
4. Find examples of represented speeh, rhetorical questions in w. S. Maugham’s novel “Theatre”.
5. Discuss different types of stylistic devices dealing with the completeness of the sentences
1. In manner, close and dry. In voice, husky and low. In face, watchful behind a blind. (D.)
2. His forehead was narrow, his face wide, his head large, and his nose all on one side. (D.)
3. A solemn silence: Mr. Pickwick humorous, the old lady serious, the gentleman cautious and Mr. Miller timorous. (D.)
4. He, and the falling light and dying fire, the time-worn room, the solitude, the wasted life, and gloom, were all in fellowship. Aches, and dust, and ruin! (D.)
5. I am a horse, doctor, animal man. Do some farming, too. Near Tulip, Texas.
6. This is a story how a Baggins had an adventure. He may have lost the neighbours’ respect, but he gained – well, you will see whether he gained anything in the end. (A.T.)
7. “People liked to be with her. And - ” She paused again. “ – and she was crazy about you”. (R.W.)
8. “He was shouting out that he’d come back, that his mother had better have the money ready for him. Or else! That is what he said : “Or else! It was a threat.”
9. “Listen, I’ll talk to the butler over that phone and he’ll know my voice. Will that pass me in or do I have to ride on your back?”
“I just work here,” he said softly. “If I didn’t - ” he let the rest hang in the air, and kept on smiling. (R.Ch.)
10. “Well, they’ll get a chance now to show - ” (Hastily): “I don’t mean – But let’s forget that”. (O’N.)
11. And it was unlikely that anyone would trouble to look there – until – well.